Inflation's Firing Line

In Chicago's giant Stevens Hotel
last week gathered 2,000 men who stand on the firing line between U.S.
business and inflation. They were members of the National Association
of Purchasing Agents, the most price-conscious men in the U.S.
Their convention this year was a remarkable get-together between
Government's pricers and buyersKnudsen, Henderson, Nelson, et
al.and those of industry.

On what the purchasing agents thought and felt depended to a large
extent whether the U.S. would have inflation or avoid it. If they
decided that inflation was coming, and began an all-out spending spree,
only drastic Government inventory control could keep...